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Loyola Chicago’s Valentine Welcomes Back Old Friend Clayton Custer

Anyone care to welcome a Loyola Chicago great back to Rogers Park? With the departure of two assistant coaches in the past couple weeks in Pat Wallace and Amorrow Morgan, Drew Valentine needed to fill a couple spots on his staff. With this announcement, I believe Loyola’s staff will be expanding. Former Larry Bird Trophy …

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The Offseason for Every A-10 Team: Part One

VCU’s conference sweep has them dancing along into March madness, but for the other 14 Atlantic 10 teams their offseason work begins now. Here is part one of my three part series of what each team’s offseason should look like. Massachusetts What was a glorious offseason for the Minutemen ended the way it deserved: ugly. …

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We Meet Again: Dayton Takes on Saint Joseph’s in the A10 Quarterfinal

It’s finally tournament time for the Dayton Flyers. After a disappointing season that led up with so much hype, the Flyers come into the conference tournament with what appears to be a favorable draw based on whatever metric you want to go with. After two rounds of play, Dayton’s A10 tournament final path is being …

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Award Thoughts from a Couple Ramblers

How voting was done: We assigned point values to players based on where we thought they should land. These all-conference, all-defensive and all-rookie teams are listed by how the votes were received, in the interest of full transparency. Player of the Year: Daron Holmes Dayton Defensive Player of the Year: Daron Holmes Dayton & Ace …

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Ramblers Lose a Heartbreaker in the First A10 Tournament Game

After a Duquesne missed open layup, on a broken baseline out of bounds play, the Duquesne players admitted they weren’t matched up to play defense on the correct players. The Loyola Ramblers had a chance to win the game. True freshman guard, Kira Chivers hoisted a midrange jump shot that came up just short. As …

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A10 MBB Power Rankings – February 27, 2023

A10 Men’s Basketball Power Rankings – February 27, 2023 First place votes (in parentheses) VCU (11) Dayton Fordham Saint Louis George Mason Duquesne George Washington Davidson St. Bonaventure Richmond La Salle Saint Joseph’s Massachusetts Rhode Island Loyola Chicago DAV DAY DUQ FORD GMU GW LAS LOY MASS URI RICH SBU SLU SJU VCU 9 2 …

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Week 16 A-10 Women’s Basketball Power Rankings

That’s a wrap on the regular season! What a ride to the finish, as Saint Louis, who started A-10 play 2-5, surged into a double-bye on the final day of the season! On the flip side, a brutal final week for GW, as the Colonials drop the final two contests to Davidson and UMass and …

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